Entire folder was DELETED by Lion when moving it out from dock

I had a folder containing some 300 GB movies and music.
Moved folder in to dock and then decided to move it back on to the desktop. And then it was GONE. Deleted.
Checked the hard drive and I had plenty of space again!
No questions, nothing in trash, no trace wahtsovever of the files - just deleted by OS X Lion.
Anyone else experienced anything like this?!

Hi AmbiP,
that sure does sound scary ...
Can you please elaborate a bit on what you did exactly?
I am not sure I understand fully what you did.
I had a folder containing some 300 GB movies and music.
Moved folder in to dock and then decided to move it back on to the desktop.
If you move folder to the dock then the dock only holds a reference to the folder, not the data. You can't move something back from the Dock to the desktop, you can only remove the refrence for quick access to the folder. So moving a folder from the dock to the desktop will not restore your folder and the data to the desktop, it will only remove the reference.
Where did your folder reside before you put the reference to the Dock? It should still be exactly there.

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